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...fired so close to a group of U.S. Marines that the round of bullets missed one Marine by only a few feet. After chasing down the truck, the lieutenant in charge of the Marines was shocked to learn the reason for the shooting. "Evidently, a car passing through the checkpoint in the other direction had honked its horn at the gun truck," he said. "The gunner felt the need to retaliate with a burst [of gunfire...
...Sunday morning, another resident described watching through his rearview mirror as a car bomb ripped through a police checkpoint in the same neighborhood. Police and army officers had been clustered there near chunks of concrete and walls of sand bags in an effort to heighten security. In the eastern neighborhood of Zayouna, another car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint, killing three people, wire services reported. "These attacks are evidence that al-Qaeda is still a very large threat," Rear Admiral Patrick Driscoll, a spokesman for the multi-national forces in Iraq, said Sunday, "We are continuously very closely focused...
...Fortunately, the ability to build emotional connections also can be used constructively. Equipping military officers with skills of affiliation has become just as important as equipping them with armored vehicles and machine guns. A single checkpoint guard who treats an important local Iraqi leader poorly may turn him from a friend of the U.S. to an enemy, thus instigating a chain of reduced support for an American presence...
...September 2005. As most Harvard students donned sweatshirts and hurried to their first classes of the year, Tayla C. Havice ’10 was searching female Iraqis for weapons at a military checkpoint on the outskirts of Fallujah clad in full desert camouflage (flack jacket and two firearms included...
...important to focus on the sacrifice the men are making for their country and the overarching goal of providing a democratic society for Iraqi citizens—a goal that “overwhelmed” the purple-fingered Sunni women who passed through Havice’s checkpoint after voting in Iraq’s constitutional referendum of October 2005, the Ohio native said...